School of Computer Science
Computer Science 308-538B
Person-machine Communication
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Instructor(s):
Cameron Hayne
- Description:
- Theory and practice of the design, implementation, and evaluation of human-computer interfaces.
- Prerequisites:
- The prerequisite courses are officially 308-302 and 308-251 but we will
not really be depending on any of the content of these courses. Instead, what
is required is a certain maturity of experience in computer science - that is what the prerequisites are intended to assure.
- Lectures:
- TTh 1:00-2:30 Macdonald Engineering 276
- Lecturer:
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Cameron Hayne
email: hayne@sympatico.ca
phone: 840-1235 ext 3230
Please make appointment if you need to meet the professor - Teaching Assistants:
-
Xing Yu
email: xyu@cs.mcgill.ca
phone: 398-7071 ext 5925
office hours: Monday 1:00-3:00 in McConnell 323
- Marking Scheme: assignments 100%
- assignment1: 20 %
- assignment2: 20 %
- assignment3: 20 %
- assignment4: 40 %
- Textbook: (recommended, not required: provides background reading
- "Human-Computer Interaction" by Jenny Preece et al
- Tutorial on Java:
- java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
- Course Topics:
- Taxonomy of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
- Importance of HCI
- Understanding users and their tasks
- UI (user-interface) design principles
- UI design techniques
- Input devices & output devices
- Implementing user-interfaces: architectures and common platforms
- Introduction to Java
- UI style guides
- UI patterns
- UI evaluation techniques
- Development contexts and software engineering
- Formalisms for UI specification
- Usability standards
- History of HCI
- Future of HCI
- Recent news / changes
- Assignments & Related Info
- Instructions for compiling and running Swing code at CS.
- Lecture Slides
- Java Examples
- Motif Examples
- summary of Sun's Java Tutorial (provided by a student)
- Cameron's HCI links
- Cameron's Java links